Show:
People, Places, and Things
Landlady
Elements of Literature
Vocabulary
Misc.
100

The name of our main character

Who is Billy Weaver?

100
This is the way Billy believes successful businessmen walk and act.
Brisk, briskly
100

When Billy checks into his room, and goes to sign the guestbook

Rising Action

100
These are the fronts of buildings.
Facades
100
How old is Billy Weaver?
Seventeen
200

The two names in the guestbook at the Landlady's Inn

Who are Christopher Mulholland and Gregory Temple?

200
This is the only thing the Landlady asks Billy to do before going to bed.
Sign her guestbook
200

When Billy arrives in Bath and begins searching for a place to stay, The Landlady is in this plot stage.

Exposition

200
Someone who would carry your bags from the train to your hotel.
Porter
200
The Landlady continues to do what to Billy that makes him a bit suspicious.
Call him the wrong name, force him to sign the book, try and force him to drink tea
300

Billy Weaver decides to stay at the Landlady's Inn rather than what Bed and Breakfast?

What is the Bell and Dragon?

300
The Landlady's perfect guest is like this.
Handsome
300
When Billy realizes that the Landlady has stuffed her parrot and dog, the plot is in which stage?
Climax
300
A peculiar smell seemed to ______ from her person.
Emanate
300
Roald Dahl uses this to give his readers a sense of what is to come
Foreshadowing
400

Two pets that comfort Billy, but later they share the same fate.

What are the dachshund and the parrot?

400
The Landlady is described as being like this common childhood toy because of the way she answers the door when Billy rings the bell.
Jack in the box
400
This stage of plot occurs in The Landlady between the times when Billy signs the guestbook and when he realizes the dog and bird are stuffed, but before he realizes that the tea has been poisoned.
Falling Action
400
To walk quickly, with a purpose
Brisk, briskly
400

The landlady is an example of this type of irony

What is situational irony?

500

The two places Mulholland and Temple are f

What are Cardiff and Bristol?

500
The Landlady explains that her previous guests have never...
Left, they are upstairs
500
When a story has fixed the problem, or solved the issue at hand.
Resolution
500

The smell of this item is almonds

What is cyanide

500

Sarcasm

What is an example of verbal irony?